data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with …

uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change …

uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change …

Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States … spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from decennial censuses and biennial National … Center for Education Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy …

Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States … spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from biennial National Center for Education … Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy that exploits exogenous …

we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment and show that attending JU significantly leads to higher school … readiness, i.e. higher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. Although the effect of attending JU on school readiness is quite …

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with … unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both … their primary and lower secondary school exam records, allowing three out of four assumptions imposed in standard value …